vc_dunkchamp wrote:-= original quote snipped =-
Couldn't have put it better myself. The whole hockey side of the operation needs an overhaul and the team needs to be blown up.
They show at various points they could be decent, but I don't see anything beyond that. What's the point of hanging on to this team if the best case scenario is decent.
Blow the whole thing up, you could rebuild within a year.
Let Antropov, Stajan, Steen play big minutes this year and acquire some picks and create cap space for the offseason. And don't blow that capspace on players that aren't worth it, if you don't see some relatively young players with some good upside on the market, hold the capspace for another year.
Yep the hockey side of the management is horrible, how they could hire a rookie GM like Ferguson to run a huge team like this and right on the birth of the new CBA I dont understand. He has tied his hands and even the eventual replacements in handing out huge contracts with no movement clause's and I gurantee this isnt a appealing situation for a potential free agent GM seeing he will have trouble moving the high priced assets.
The best case scenario for this team is a 6th-8th seed playoff bid and most certainly a first round exit and thats disgusting when you figure how were right at the cap, have traded away a boatload of picks for current players and have no cant miss prospects in the pipeline. Amost 85%- 90 percent of teams are either a.)a good team with a realistic shot at a run or B.)has either a already proven young stud or cant miss prospect in there system and the leafs are neither of the two.
I mean what does a Leaf fan have to be excited about at this time? A marginal team and hoping they squeeze into the playoffs and pull off some pipedream playoff run like Edmonton? Yes it happened with the Oil but this was more of a rare exception then the norm or even something that happens often. We have a bunch of decent young players but none that will ever be a top 30 player in the league and really noone to take over for when Mats retires and the best prospect that was in the system is now playing in Bostons system.
Im serious, I hope we trade Sundin and others like Tucker, Kubina and gain some cap space in the process and go into a full out tank mode ala the Flyers last year and hope to pick up a player like Stamkos, Doughty or Pietrangelo in the draft and look to sign a decent free agent with the money.
-waits for the Leafs fan optimists to come in and say give it time, this team will make the playoffs and we have guys like Tlusty, Kulemin and Stralman in the system and make it seem like I should be excited about there potential.
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